The Democratic Party used to be the party of blue collar America- supporting laws and policies that benefitted that segment of the U.S. population. Their leaders may still claim to be advocates for American working families, however their duplicitous actions that betray American workers and their families, while undermining national security and public safety, provide clear and incontrovertible evidence of their lies…. MICHAEL CUTLER …FRONTPAGE mag

THEY’RE NOT HAPPY:
Upset with President Barack Obama’s immigration policy, about 250 people march
in Phoenix in October to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office
with a goal of stopping future deportations.

By Kenric Ward |
Watchdog.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Before Republicans start caving to Democrats’ demand for
“comprehensive immigration reform” this election year, skeptics say lawmakers
should find out how billions in tax dollars are falling through the sieve of
so-called enforcement programs.

Contrary to President
Obama’s claims of record deportations, John Sandweg, the director of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admits ICE deported only 134,000
illegal immigrants from the country’s interior in 2012.

That figure
— down 40 percent since 2009, when Obama took office — represents
just 0.2 percent of the estimated 11.7 million illegals in the United States.

The administration
and its political allies assert that Washington is spending more on immigration
enforcement than on the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration,
the Secret Service and all other federal criminal law-enforcement
agencies combined.

“Nearly $187
billion (was) spent on federal immigration enforcement over the past 26 years,”
according to the Migration Policy Institute, a pro-immigration group.

But MPI buries the
real news. Under Obama, ICE’s budget dropped from $5.98 billion in 2012 to a
requested $5.34 billion for 2014. Citing financial constraints, ICE freed more
than 2,000 detainees last February.

Deportations from
the interior have declined under Obama’s “prosecutorial discretion” policies
that exempt at least 90 percent of the illegal-alien population.

Overall,
deportations by all federal agencies, as defined by the administration, fell
from 409,849 in fiscal year 2012 to 368,644 in fiscal 2013.

“ICE arrests have
been trending downward since 2008,” says Jessica Vaughn, director of
policy studies at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies.

SPOT THE FAKE: A
Prince William County (Va.) police officer examines a fake Social Security card
during a 2008 training session. (AP file photo)

“ICE agents now are
releasing more illegal aliens than they are deporting, even though they have
more resources and technology at their disposal.”

The Clinton
administration holds the record for deportations, at 12.3 million over
eight years. George W. Bush’s administration shipped back 10.3 million
illegals during his tenure.

An Obama White
Housebriefing paper on “border security” never mentions the word
“deportation.”

Critics say
Congress should closely analyze expenditures and results as the White House and
Democratic lawmakers make a political push to legalize more illegals.

“Those who support
amnesty are playing along with the administration’s claim that it is continuing
to enforce the law,” says the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Yet former Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano repeatedly claimed
she only had the resources to remove 400,000 illegal immigrants annually.

“They’ve used this
as an excuse to stop nearly all deportations of illegal aliens without
additional criminal convictions. At the same time, ICE and DHS have not
requested additional funding to ensure broad enforcement of immigration laws,”
FAIR spokeswoman Kristen Williamson told Watchdog.org.

Still, the
“Deporter-in-Chief” narrative is echoed by immigration enthusiasts and
mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times.

“Illegal
immigration has been higher in the last decade than 20 or 40 years ago, and
apprehensions are down,” Vaughn counters.

Meantime, the Government
Accountability Office reports that DHS, which oversees ICE and 21 other
agencies, had achieved operational control of only a “small share” of the
southwest border. Republican leaders have made border security a key
precondition for any proposed immigration deal.

Kenric Ward is a
national reporter for Watchdog.org and chief of its Virginia Bureau. Contact
him at kenric@watchdogvirginia.org or at (571) 319-9824. @Kenricward

While the Obama Administration halts
deportations to work on its secret amnesty
plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of
medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding
compensation from the federal government

“What
we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by
not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World
corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans.
If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or
insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without
paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying
Americans.”

“We
cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it.
Everything from the crime to the drugs and the kidnappings and extortion and
the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in theircommunities.” -

The Alibaba IPO frenzy: Symptom of a diseased economic order

22 September 2014

The initial public offering (IPO) of shares in the Chinese Internet trading company Alibaba, which led to a frenzy on Wall Street last Friday, is the latest, and one of the most spectacular, expressions of the parasitism that is now the dominant feature of the global financial system and the world economy more broadly.

Initially priced at $68 per share, the stock began trading on the New York exchange at $92.70, with 100 million shares changing hands in the first ten minutes, before closing at $93.89. The 38 percent rise took the market value of the fifteen-year-old company to $231 billion, more than Amazon, Proctor & Gamble and JP Morgan.

The IPO reportedly made Jack Ma, the company’s founder, China’s richest man, with a net worth of $26.5 billion. It is hard to ascertain what is more repugnant: the scale of the plunder or the extent of the hypocrisy that accompanied it. Ma told the CNBC business TV channel that the issue was not money, but getting “trust from the people.”
Silver Lake Management, which focuses on trading in technology firms, reaped five times its initial outlay on Alibaba. Silver Lake bought into the company in October 2011 in a series of deals that put Alibaba’s market value at around $30 billion. At the end of Friday’s trading, it had reaped profits of $4.6 billion. Likewise, Yahoo stands to gain about $5.1 billion after selling its 121.7 million shares in the company.

The 35 underwriters of the deal collectively raked in around $300 million in fees, with five major banks securing about $45 million each.

The entire operation was a graphic demonstration of the putrefaction of the profit system. The IPO itself was an exercise in insider trading, with some 25 institutions securing more than 50 percent of the shares and the biggest portion of the profits on offer.

Fabulous fortunes were made in a matter of minutes as a result of share trading in a company that produces nothing, but is engaged in e-commerce, that is, facilitating buying and selling through the Internet. The naked display of avarice occurred under conditions of stagnation and slump in the real economy and relentless attacks on the conditions of workers, justified by the claim that “there is no money” for jobs, decent wages or basic social services.

The overall indebtedness of the city of Detroit, now in bankruptcy and at the centre of the assault on the working class, including the shutoff of water to thousands of households, is put at around $18 billion—less than the profits raked in during the first hour of trading in Alibaba shares.

The parasitism involved in the IPO is underscored by a consideration of why the “market value” of Alibaba is so inflated. It is not because it has developed some new form of technology, facilitated an important innovation, or brought forward a more advanced production technique.

Its attractiveness flows from its monopolisation of Internet services in China. It dominates operations that in other countries are run by different companies. It owns Chinese firms that are the equivalent of Amazon and eBay and earns money from transaction fees flowing from the Chinese equivalent of PayPal.

This monopoly position has been facilitated by the company’s close connections to the Chinese Stalinist regime. An article in the Australian Financial Review noted that Jack Ma had fostered “warm relations” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “Truth be told,” the newspaper reported, “Alibaba couldn’t have reached the heights it already has without the support of the upper echelons of the Communist Party.”

This is a striking revelation of the role played by the Chinese regime in propping up world capitalism, with all its socially destructive consequences, and the global character of the international financial aristocracy.

The Alibaba IPO came at the end of a week in which a report by Wealth-X and UBS showed that the world’s billionaires had an accumulated wealth of $7.3 trillion, an increase of 12 percent in the last year. This increase of wealth at the very top is accompanied by worsening social conditions for the working class in all of the major capitalist centres. These are not parallel processes, but causally connected.

Since the eruption of the global financial crisis in 2008, the economic policies of the ruling elites have proceeded on two main lines: the supply of ultra-cheap money to the banks and financial institutions to finance speculation, and the driving down of the social position of the working class.

The connection between the two has again been illustrated. Within a day of the Alibaba IPO orgy on Wall Street, halfway round the world at a meeting of G-20 finance ministers and central bankers in Cairns, Australia, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde insisted on the necessity for so-called “labour market” reforms—code words for the destruction of what remains of legal protections for workers.

The frenzy on the financial markets, the surge in corporate stock buybacks, IPOs and takeovers, and the return of the same practices that led to the crisis of 2008 are themselves expressions of the deep and ongoing crisis of the world capitalist system.

The euro zone economies are either stagnating or in outright recession, with production levels still below where they were in 2007. The Japanese economy has experienced no growth this year, despite the massive financial stimulus package carried out under “Abenomics.” Chinese growth is slowing, with mounting questions arising over the stability of the country’s financial system. The American economy has failed to return to anywhere near the growth levels reached before the financial crash.
In other words, money is pouring into the financial system because it has nowhere else to go. The rise of speculation, parasitism and the monopolisation of socially produced wealth by a money-crazed and semi-criminal elite are manifestations of the deep-going historical crisis of the capitalist economic order.

The Alibaba IPO exemplifies the manner in which the capitalist market and monopoly domination turn the Internet, a technological advance that potentially opens up vast prospects for social advancement, into a means for generating fabulous wealth for a mere handful. It is another demonstration of the necessity for the complete overturn of the profit system and the reconstruction of the global economic order on socialist foundations.

Nick Beams

THE 1% DEMAND
THE FINAL SOLUTION TO THE AMERICAN MIDDLE –CLASS and IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH
PENALTY... their counting the spoils now!

With colossal impertinence, the Mexican
government attacked Texas Gov. Rick Perry for sending National Guard troops to
guard our Southern border, saying that Mexico "deeply rejects and condemns
the deployment." The Mexicans accused Perry of taking this action to
advance his political ambitions.

As Obama's Wall Street cronies continue to
loot and Obama hands the American middle class the tax bills for their economic
crimes:

The WSWS continued: “A sea change is unfolding
in the US and world economy that portends a catastrophe of dimensions not seen
since the Great Depression of the 1930s.” It warned that for the working class,
the financial meltdown meant “rapid growth of unemployment, poverty,
homelessness and social misery,” while “many of those who precipitated this
economic disaster… will profit handsomely from the debris they have left
behind.”

Today, Sen. Jeff
Sessions (R-Ala.) blasted pro-amnesty billionaires whose fondness for open
borders ends at the doors of their "gated compounds and fenced-off communities,"
noting how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought other four houses surrounding
his own just because he wanted "a little privacy."

To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.

AMNESTY: America’s death warrant

THE CONSPIRACY to DESTROY AMERICA’S BORDERS… Obama
and his Wall Street banksters

“This nation no longer is a democratic
republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who
preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the
elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out
the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”

BILLIONAIRES partner with MEXICO,
OBAMA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to assault the AMERICAN WORKER….
Amnesty, it’s all about keeping wages depressed and passing along the real cost
of all that “cheap” mex labor to the American middle class.

To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.

“At
the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew
Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the
recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while
native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”

"We
have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal
immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said.
"As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to
immigrants."

Mr.
Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years
of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and
authorizes them to work in the United States.

Some
Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates
his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.

WE KNOW WHAT OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERS HAVE DONE TO
THE AMERICAN ECONOMY… but will Obama’s amnesty hoax to legalize mexico’s
looting and destroy the GOP, also destroy the DEMOCRAT PARTY?

Americans would "be shocked to know that most
of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.

Story Highlights

Bill provision that would require
firms to post jobs for Americans is targeted

Technology firms have spent millions
on lobbying on immigration

Judiciary Committee set to start
working on bill

WASHINGTON
– Technology firms, exercising new political clout on Capitol Hill, are
lobbying against a measure in the leading Senate immigration bill that would
make it harder for them to recruit workers from abroad without first taking
steps to hire Americans for highly skilled jobs in programming, engineering and
other fields.